The Oxford Francis Bacon aims to produce a new 16-volume critical edition of the works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), in the original spelling, edited from the authoritative witnesses after a meticulous analysis of surviving manuscripts, whether authorial or scribal, and the collation of a substantial number of copies of printed books, to identify stop-press corrections. The introductions and commentaries will provide a rich contextualization of Bacon’s wide-ranging works, opening up many new avenues of research. The edition will provide brand-new facing page-translations for the edited texts of the Latin works; and re-integrate Bacon’s work within the study of early modern philosophy, science, historiography, legal thought, and literature.
Planned Volumes
The following volumes are in preparation:
Vol. II: Late Elizabethan Writings, 1597–1602, ed. Alan Stewart.
Vol. III: Earlier Jacobean Writings, 1603–1613, ed. R. W. Serjeantson and Angus Vine.
Vol. V: Early Philosophical Writings to c.1611, ed. Rhodri Lewis, Sophie Weeks and Daniel Andersson.
Vol. VII: Political and Legal Writings, 1613–1626, ed. Chris R. Kyle.
Vol. IX: The Instauratio magna, Part I: De augmentis scientiarum, Books I–IV, ed. †Graham Rees, with Maria Wakely. Commentary by Marta Fattori, Benedino Gemelli, James A.T. Lancaster, Brian Vickers. English translation by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.
Vol. X: The Instauratio magna, Part I: De augmentis scientiarum, books V–IX, ed. †Graham Rees, with Maria Wakely. Commentary by Marta Fattori, Benedino Gemelli, James A.T. Lancaster, Brian Vickers. English translation by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.
Vol. XIV: Sylva Sylvarum and New Atlantis, text ed. †Graham Rees, with Maria Wakely. Commentary by David Colclough, Guido Giglioni, Penelope Gouk, and Kathryn Murphy.
Vol. XVI: Index, with miscellaneous and attributed works.